Michael Herr

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There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much."

Michael Herr

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Herr, Michael. "Breathing In." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

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Out on the street I couldn't tell the Vietnam veterans from the rock and roll veterans. The Sixties had made so many casualties, its war and its music had run power off the same circuit for so long they didn't even have to fuse.

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Herr, Michael. "Breathing Out." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

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I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

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Herr, Michael. "Colleagues." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

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